Device for supporting fowls.



PATENTBD APR. 2, ,1907

H. M. VANDBRBILT. DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING FOWLS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1906.

INVENTOH WITNESSES 15 m r m a 0 H m ATTORNEYS UNITED sTATEs PATENTOFFICE.

HERBERT M. VANDERBILT, OF SUFFERN, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed July 17,1906. Serial No. 326,602.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT M. VANDER- BILT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Suffern, in the county of Rocklandand State ofNew York,'have invented a new and Improved Device for Supporting Fowls,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention i an improved device for supporting fowls while roasting,one object of the invention being to provide a simple and comparativelyinexpensive means to support in anelevated position a fowl with itsbreast down during the cooking period, thereby admitting of the uniformcirculation of heat ab out it and its retention in a convenient shape,also to make provision. for the adjustment of the device, enablin it tobe used in connection with fowls o varying sizes.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of twopieces of wire bent and twisted in a novel manner and slidably connectedtogether in a way hereinafter particularly described.

Reference is to be had to the drawings forming a part of thisspecification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the invention complete,showing in dotted outline a fowl supported breast down therein; and Fig.2 is a side elevation of the base of the device,-partly in longitudinalcentral section.

The invention as embodied in the construction illustrated is composed oftwo wires 1 and 2. The Wire 1 is bent at its center to form adownwardly-turned eye 3 from which forwardly extends its two ends sideby side for some distance, where they are twisted, as at 4, andthereafter bent in opposite directions in substantially a horizontalplane and into downwardly-turned loops 5, forming feet for this end ofthe device. After forming the feet the ends of the wire are bent back onthemselves toward each other until the center is reached, where they area ain; twisted together into a vertical standard '6 at such a distanceabove the horizontal portion leading from theeye 3 as to avoid thebreasts of ordinary size fowls contacting therewith when supported inposition. At the upper end of the standard (r the ends of the wire againseparate, forming an enlarged U 7, after Which said ends are bent backon themselves, terminating at their last point of diver ence, thusreinforcing the U by a double portion of wire.

The wire 2 is bent at its center to form an upwardly-extendin eye 8,slidingly embracing the longitu 'nal' doubled portion of the wire 1 andwith its ends extending rearwardly side by side from this point throughthe eye 3. At a point 9 corresponding tov the point 4 of the wire 1 theends of the wire 2 are twisted together and are thereafter simi larlybent in opposite directions in substantially ahorizontal plane and intodown- 'wardly-turned loops 10, forming feetfor the rear end of thedevice. After forming said feet the ends of the wire 2 are bent-back onAfter forming said seats the ends of the wire 2 are downwardly andinwardly turned, terminatin at diametrical opposite sides 0 the standar11.

In the use of the device it is seated on the bottom of a pan or the likein which the fowl is to be roasted, with its two members 1' and 2separated a distance according to the fowls length. The fowl is thenseated, as illus trated in Fig. 1,.with its breast down and embracednear its wings by the enlarged U 7 and the legs resting in the curvedseats 14,i1r which position the shape of the fowl is maintained and thebest results arrived at.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of the invention, itis to be un-.

a curved seat 14 for each of the fowls legs.

like, comprising two members, each having supporting-feet joinedtogether, a standardrising from the center of the joining portion ofsaid feet on each member, a large U-sha ed seat centrally supported atthe upper; on of one 'of the standards, and a small seat ar.-,

ranged at each side of and supported by the other standard.

2. A device for supporting fowls and the like, comprising two membersadjustably connected together, each member having and a smal seatarranged at each side and supported by the other standard.

4. A device for supporting foWls or the like, comprising two memberseach having an element slidably embracing each other, a standardvertically rising from each element, a seat centrally supported attheupper end of one of the standards, and a seat arranged at each side ofand supported by the other standard. v

5. A device for supporting fowls' and the like, comprising two wiremembers slidably connected together, each of said members including feetjoined together, a standard rising from the center of the joiningportion of said feet on each member, a large seat centrally supported atthe upper end of one of the standards, and a small seat arranged at eachside of and supported by the other standard.

6. A device for supporting fowls and the like, comprising two membersslidably con- 'nected together, each member having feet joined together,a large seat centrally supported on the joining portion of the feet ofone-member, and a small seat su ported on the joining portion of thefeet of tl ie opposite member at each sidethereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

. HERBERT M. VANDERBILT. Witnesses;

EVERARD B. MARSHALL,

F. W. HANAFORD.

